三维势流场的比例边界有限元求解方法

比例边界有限元法(SBFEM)是线性偏微分方程的一种新的数值求解方法。该方法只对计算域边界利用Galerkin方法进行数值离散,相对于有限元方法(FEM)减少了一个空间坐标的维数,而在减少的空间坐标方向利用解析方法进行求解;相对于边界元法(BEM),比例边界有限元方法不需要基本解,避免了奇异积分的计算,所以它结合了有限元和边界元方法的优点。本文建立了利用比例边界有限元法求解三维Laplace方程的数值模型并用于计算三维物体周围的水流场,将计算结果与解析解和边界元方法进行了对比,结果表明此方法可以很好地模拟水流场,且具有较高的计算精度。     

A boundary element modeling of fatigue crack growth in a plane elastic plate

This paper presents an extension of a boundary element method to fatigue growth analysis of mixed-mode cracked plane elastic bodies. The method consists of the non-singular displacement discontinuity element presented by Crouch and Starfield and the crack-tip displacement discontinuity element due to the author. In the boundary element implementation the left or the right crack-tip element is placed locally at the corresponding left or right crack tip on top of non-singular displacement discontinuity elements that cover the entire crack surface and the other boundaries. Crack growth is simulated with an incremental crack extension analysis based on the modified maximum strain energy density criterion. In numerical simulation, for each increment of crack extension, remeshing of existing boundaries is not required because of an intrinsic feature of the boundary element method. Crack growth is simulated by adding new boundary elements on the incremental crack extension to the previous crack boundaries. At the same time, the element characters of some related elements are adjusted according to the manner in which the boundary element method is implemented. Some numerical results of fatigue growth in a plane elastic plate with a center-inclined crack under uniaxial cyclic loading are given.     

Research on the companion solution for a thin plate in the meshless local boundary integral equation method

The meshless local boundary integral equation method is a currently developed numerical method, which combines the advantageous features of Galerkin finite element method ( GFEM ), boundary element method (BEM) and element free Galerkin method (EFGM), and is a truly meshless method possessing wide prospects in engineeringapplications. The companion solution and all the other formulas required in the meshless local boundary integral equation for a thin plate were presented, in order to make this method apply to solve the thin plate problem.     

动态断裂力学的无限相似边界元法

对弹性动力学的相似边界元法进行了进一步研究,推导了相应的计算公式,并在此基础上提出了动态断裂力学的无限相似边界元法.与传统的边界元法相比,相似边界元法由于只需在少数单元上进行数值积分,大大减少了计算量.对动态断裂力学问题,无限相似边界元法由于在裂纹尖端的边界上设置了逼近于裂纹尖端的无限个相似边界单元,可直接得到裂纹尖端具有奇异性的应力,而不需要设置奇异单元,从而突破了奇异单元对应力奇异性阶次的局限.另外,还讨论了无限相似边界元法得到的无限阶的线性代数方程组的求解方法.     

A meshless method of a thin plate

A meshless approach to analysis of arbitrary Kirchhoff plates by the local boundary integral equation(LBIE) method is presented. The method combines the advantageous features of, all the three methods: the Galerkin finite element method (GFEM), the boundary element method (BEM) and the element-free Galerkin method (EFGM). It is a truly meshless method, which means that the discretization is independent of geometric subdivision into elements or cells, but is only based on a set of nodes (ordered or scattered) over a domain in question. It involves only boundary integration, however, over a local boundary centered at the node in question; It poses no difficulties in satisfying the essential boundary conditions while leading to banded and sparse system matrices using the moving least square (MLS) approximations. It is shown that high accuracy can be achieved for arbitrary geometries for clamped and simply-supported edge conditions. The method is found to be simple, efficient, and attractive. Project supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 19972019).     

Formulation and implementation of a singular anisotropic finite element

The formulation and implementation of a singular finite element for analyzing homogeneous anistropic materials is presented in this paper. Lekhnitskii's stress function method is used to formulate the boundary value problem with the stress function expressed as a Laurent series. The development of the element stiffness matrix and the method of integrating the element to conventional displacement based finite element programs is shown. The stiffness matrix generation is based on a least squates collocation technique to satisfy displacement continuity boundary conditions at the element interface. Implementation of the element is demonstrated for cracked anisotropic materials subjected to inplane loading. Center cracked, on and off-axis coupons under tensile loading are analyzed using the element. It is shown that the stress distributions and intensity factors compare well with those obtained using other methods.     

Modeling of Sliding of a Smooth Indenter over a Viscoelastic Layer Coupled with a Rigid Base

The article deals with constant-speed sliding of a smooth indenter along the boundary of a viscoelastic layer coupled with a rigid half-space. The problem is investigated in a quasistatic statement by constructing a solution for the case of a load sliding, distributed inside of a rectangular element, which allows using the boundary element method and an iterative procedure. The effect of sliding velocity and layer thickness on the contact pressure distribution and the deformation component of the frictional force is studied.     

无单元Galerkin法和边界元耦合法

无网格方法与有限元法或边界元法耦合是无网格方法处理边界条件的方法之一,在无网格方法中研究无网格方法与有限元法或边界元法耦合的研究显得非常重要.本文在无单元Galerkin法和边界元法的基础上,基于无单元Galerkin法子域和边界元法子域的界面上位移连续和面力平衡条件,提出了一种新的无单元Galerkin法和边界元法的直接耦合方法,对弹性力学问题详细推导了在整个求解域上的耦合公式.与以往的耦合法相比,这种方法简单直观,不需要增加新的耦合区域,也不需要建立新的逼近函数来保证界面位移的连续性.算例结果表明,该方法具有较好的计算精度.     

Oblique water entry of a cone by a fully three-dimensional nonlinear method

The hydrodynamic problem of a cone entering the water surface obliquely has been analyzed by the three-dimensional (3-D) incompressible velocity potential theory with the fully nonlinear boundary conditions on the moving free surface and body surface boundary. The time stepping method is used in the stretched coordinate system defined as the ratio of the physical system to the distance that the cone has travelled into water. The boundary element method is used to solve the potential at each time step. Both triangular element mesh and quadrilateral element mesh have been used. Discretisation of the body surface and the free surface is applied regularly during the simulation to account for their change and deformation, and data from the old mesh is transferred into the new one through interpolation. Both the dynamic and kinematic free surface boundary conditions are satisfied through the Eulerian form. In particular the free surface elevation and potential variation are traced at a given azimuth of the cylindrical coordinate system, in the direction parallel to the body surface or perpendicular to the free surface to avoid multi-valued function. Detailed convergence study with respect to time step and element size has been undertaken and high accuracy has been achieved. Results for the cone in vertical entry are compared with those obtained from the 2-D axisymmetric method and good agreement is found. Simulations are made for cones of various deadrise angles and different oblique entries and detailed results are provided.     

内部压力作用下矩形板中源于椭圆孔的分支裂纹应力强度因子的一种数值分析

应用一种边界元方法来研究内部压力作用下矩形板中源于椭圆孔的分支裂纹。该边界元方法由Crouch与Starfied建立的常位移不连续单元和笔者最近提出的裂尖位移不连续单元构成。在该边界元方法的实施过程中,左、右裂尖位移不连续单元分别置于裂纹的左、右裂尖处,而常位移不连续单元则分布于除了裂尖位移不连续单元占据的位置之外的整个裂纹面及其它边界。本数值结果进一步证实这种数值方法对计算有限大板中复杂裂纹的应力强度因子的有效性,同时该数值结果可以揭示裂纹体几何对应力强度因子的影响。     

Kinked crack analysis by a hybridized boundary element/boundary collocation method

In this research a two dimensional displacement discontinuity method (which is a kind of indirect boundary element method) using higher order elements (i.e. a source element with a cubic variation of displacement discontinuities having four sub-elements) is used to obtain the displacement discontinuities along each boundary element. In this paper, three kinds of the higher order boundary elements are used: the ordinary elements, the kink elements and the special crack tip elements.The boundary collocation technique is used for the calculation of the displacement discontinuities at the center of each sub-elements. Again a special boundary collocation technique is used to treat the kinked source elements occur in the crack analysis. Considering the two source elements (each having four sub-elements) joined at a corner (kink point). The collocation points in the cubic element model which are outside of the kink point are moved to the crack kink then the displacement discontinuities on the left and right sides of the kink are calculated. The displacement discontinuities of the kink point are obtained by averaging the corresponding values of its left and right sides. The special crack tip elements are also treated by the boundary displacement collocation technique considering the singularity variation of the displacements and stresses near the crack tip. Some simple example problems are solved numerically by the proposed method. The numerical results are compared with the corresponding results obtained by the previous methods cited in the literature. This comparison shows a very good agreement between the results and verify the accuracy and validity of the proposed method.     

压电材料平面问题的虚边界元-等额配点解法

利用压电材料平面问题的基本解和弹性力学虚边界元方法的基本思想,提出了压电材料平面问题的虚边界元-等额配点解法。该解法继承了传统边界元方法的优点,而避免了传统边界元方法遇到的边界积分奇异性问题。最后给出了压电材料平面问题的一些具体算例,并与解析解作了比较。结果表明本文的方法有很高的精度,是该问题一个十分有效的数值求解方法。     

断裂力学的半解析相似边界元法

本文首先对弹性力学的相似边界元法进行了研究，推导了相应的计算公式。与传统的边界元法相比，相似边界元法由于只需在少数单元上进行数值积分，大大减少了计算量。在此基础上，对断裂力学问题，利用裂纹尖端位移场的解析表达式将裂纹尖端节点未知量转化为几个待定常数，提出了半解析相似边界元法，可大大减少最终形成的线性代数方程组的系数矩阵的阶数，进一步减小计算量。最后给出了算例，说明了本文方法的有效性。     

Effective elastic properties of doubly periodic array of inclusions of various shapes by the boundary element method

A rectangular cell of known boundary conditions is cut out from a medium containing the doubly periodic array of inclusions. The stress and strain relationship of the rectangular cell is obtained by using the classical boundary element methods. By matching the boundary condition requirements, the effective elastic properties of the doubly periodic array of inclusions can then be calculated. Numerical examples from the sub-domain boundary element method and the single domain boundary element method are compared and discussed. However, the present method cannot be readily extended to domains having circular or curved boundary parts.     

Fracture analysis for torsion problems of a composite cylinder with curvilinear cracks

The Salnt-Venant torsion problems of a composite cylinder with curvilinear cracks were investigated. By considering the bimaterial interface as a boundary of the outer bar or inner one, the problem was reduced to the solution of boundary integral equations on the crack, external boundary and interface. Using the new boundary element method, some typical torsion problems of a composite cylinder involving a straight or kinked crack were calculated. The obtained results were compared with data in the literature to show validity and applicability of the present method.     

Boundary element analysis of interaction between an elastic rectangular inclusion and a crack

The interaction between an elastic rectangular inclusion and a kinked crack inan infinite elastic body was considered by using boundary element method. The new complexboundary integral equations were derived. By introducing a complex unknown function H(t)related to the interface displacement density and traction and applying integration by parts,the traction continuous condition was satisfied automatically. Only one complex boundaryintegral equation was obtained on interface and involves only singularity of order l/ r. Toverify the validity and effectiveness of the present boundary element method, some typicalexamples were calculated. The obtained results show that the crack stress intensity factorsdecrease as the shear modulus of inclusion increases. Thus, the crack propagation is easiernear a softer inclusion and the harder inclusion is helpful for crack arrest.     

压电材料三维问题的虚边界元——最小二乘配点法

从压电材料三维问题的基本方程出发,利用已有的压电材料三维问题的基本解以及弹性力学虚边界元方法的基本思想和线性叠加原理,提出了压电材料三维问题的虚边界元——最小二乘配点解法。虚边界元解法继承了传统边界元方法的优点,并且有效避免了传统边界元方法中可能遇到的边界积分奇异性问题。最后,文章给出了压电材料三维问题的几个数值算例,并且与解析解做了比较,结果表明本文的方法具有较高的精度,是解决该问题一个十分有效的数值求解方法。     

Application of an improved boundary element method on the problem of elastic torsion

An improved boundary clement method has been used in analyzing and calculating the problems of the torsion of a prismatic bar with elliptical cross-section. In this paper the calculated results correspond with the values of boundary element method. However, the quantity of data required by the improved boundary element method is much less than that required by boundary element method, and the calculating time will be greatly reduced. Therefore, the procedure of this paper is an economical and efficient numerical computational way for solving Poisson equation problem.     

Boundary element analysis of contact problems using artificial boundary node approach

An improved version of the regular boundary element method, the artificial boundary node approach, is derived. A simple contact algorithm is designed and implemented into the direct boundary element, regular boundary element and artificial boundary node approaches. The exisiting and derived approaches are tested using some case studies. The results of the artificial boundary node approach are compared with those of the existing boundary element program, the regular element approach, ANSYS and analytical solution whenever possible. The results show the effectiveness of the artificial boundary node approach for a wider range of boundary offsets.     

Wave induced thermal boundary layers in a compressible fluid: analysis and numerical simulations

The response of a semi-infinite compressible fluid to a step-wise change in temperature of its boundary is investigated analytically and numerically. Numerical results of the boundary layer structure are compared with Clarke’s analytical solution for a gas with thermal conductivity proportional to temperature. To avoid unwanted numerical dissipation in the numerical analysis, the space-time conservation element and solution element (CESE) method has been adopted to solve the unsteady 1-D Navier-Stokes equations. Good agreement between analytical and numerical results has been found for the development of the thermal boundary layer on a long time scale. Weak shock waves and expansion waves induced by the thermal boundary layer due to its compressibility, are observed in the numerical simulation. Finally, the numerical method has been applied to the reflection of a non-linear expansion wave and to a shock wave from an isothermal wall, thereby illustrating the effect of the boundary layer on the external flow field.